FORA.tv Speaker - Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Biography

In the spring of 2015, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy launched ChoosePossibility, an effort to promote gender diversity in the technology industry and beyond. Last July, its first project was introduced, known as theBoardlist, which is an online marketplace of endorsed and nominated female candidates for private and public board service. As Founder and CEO of the video shopping network Joyus, she has broad experience to understand how critical strong boards are for a growing business, as well as how vital women are to our economy. Her digital career began in 1998 when she led business development for ecommerce startup, Junglee, later sold to Amazon. Cassidy then spent four years running business development for the financial account aggregation service Yodlee, before joining Google in 2003. Cassidy spent six years as Google’s President of Asia Pacific and Latin America. In addition to her management experience, Cassidy is a director at TripAdvisor and Ericsson, and previously served on the J.Crew Group board of directors.